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Shaanxi Province located at Midwest inland of China was a typical iodine deficient disorders region. To investigate iodine and selenium levels of neonates in the Shaanxi sub-clinical cretinism region of China after supplement of iodine salt for nearly twenty years. We collected 56 umbilical cord blood samples from cretinous regions of Yijun County (a selenium deficient region) north of Shaanxi Province and Ziyang County (a selenium-enriched region) south of the province and from Lintong in Xi'an (a non-cretinous region for control). Among these samples 17 were collected from Ziyang, 20 from Lintong and 19 from Yijun. Seven trace elements of iodine, selenium, zinc, copper, iron, calcium and magnesium in the umbilical cord blood samples were measured and the results were processed statistically. There were no significant differences in the levels of iodine among all three counties. However, the level of selenium in Ziyang was the highest and in Yijun it was the lowest. The other trace elements such as Cu Zn Fe and Mg showed no significant difference among the three counties except for the Ca level which was lower in Yijun.
The regression equation was established with the backward method of multiple regression was: Se=0.180+0.00006654 Fe−0.006 Cu−0.005956 Mg+0.1.
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Su, M., Tian, D., Li, W. et al. Analysis of iodine and selenium trace elements in umbilical cord blood in cretinous regions in northwest China in 1999. Environ Health Prev Med 7, 19–21 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02898062
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